Lispy Gopher Show 2025-02-05: programming languages, history, blogging, and communities with screwtape, Ramin Honary, and me
| communityI joined @screwtape's Lispy Gopher Show at the last minute because he wanted to chat a little about community, his experiences starting a new blog, and my recent post Through blogging, we discover our thoughts and other people. Ramin Honary was also there, so the conversation also included Scheme, CL, Haskell, and other cool things. I shared the notes I was taking (yay screen mirroring!) and occasionally jumped in. Halfway through, I decided to experiment with adding timestamps to my notes. MP3 from the archive. (Ooh, someday I should embed the audio and then have the hyperlinks skip to sections or highlight in sync…)
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Lispy Gopher Show with screwtape, Ramin Honary, and me (Sacha Chua)
2025-02-05
Next steps/recommendations:
- Blog! Share notes & links
Not-entirely-sorted topics:
- DeepSeek
- energy
- climate
- lower consumption
- Kent, Emacs variants
- Gypsum
- Scheme
- Yale
- Haskell
- Ramin Honary
- drawing notes during conversation
- memory
- mastodon
- monads
- Lambdas + procedures
- Haskell
- also other things aside from chained side effects
- 0:30 T, Jonathan Rees
- Community
- recursion
- 0:41 Haskell
- 0:35 Dijkstra anecdotes
- people are very opinionated
- 0:43 CL - Haskell, typechecking
- 0:47 Lambda calculi
- Kenichi Sasagawa
- life trajectory: accounting, SICP
- intuition
- IS Lisp, Prolog
- islisp.info
- life trajectory: accounting, SICP
- 0:44 The Curse of Lisp
- solo coders vs. cooperating
- I can do it myself
- intuition
Sketch ID 2025-02-04-05
I might find it interesting to dig a little more into the community topics. Curious about how other Lispy communities do things, considering that Lisp Curse essay that has turned up twice now in our conversations. Hmm…